Quotes About Perspective

It was … difficult at first,' he said. 'I am a person. But I seemed to forget in time …' 'Forget what?' 'That they were people too.

Es muy bueno fingiendo ser alguien que no es -le comenté después a Zoya en el vestíbulo, cuando esperábamos para felicitarlo, sin saber muy bien si con esas palabras pretendía o no halagarlo-. No sé cómo lo hace. - Yo sí -repuso ella, sorprendiéndome.

Que uno contemple el cielo por la noche no lo convierte en astrónomo.

Odran, you may never believe anything I tell you again, but believe this: you have no idea what you're talking about. None. You don't have the first concept of what my childhood was like. Of all the things that happened to me in the years before I arrived at Clonliffe. None.' 'And I don't want to know, I told him. 'Nothing that happened to you back then makes anything that you did acceptable. It doesn't justify anything. Can't you see that?

Ah those people, said Father, nodding his head smiling slightly. Those people...well, they are not people at all, Bruno.

Não torne as coisas piores, pensando que dói mais do que você realmente está sentindo.

It was almost (Shmuel thought) as if they were all exactly the same really.

the usual nonsense that people who know nothing about anything, like me, say when they don't want their own days to be ruined by worrying about others.

Wenn ein Mensch nachts in den Himmel schaut, heißt das noch lange nicht, dass er Astronom ist - Pavel

Bruno was jealous, he had to wear stupid pants en shoes while the boys at the other side of the fence were wearing nice pyjamas al day long

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Con los árboles pasaba todo lo contrario que con las personas: éstas, cuanto mayores eran, más pequeñas parecían volverse. Con los árboles, funcionaba al revés.

When we think we are absolutely right, we stop seeking new information. To be right is to be certain, and to be certain stops us from being curious.

Richard Bandler suggested that one of the major blocks to creativity was the feeling of knowing you are right.

Looking at Yourself Through the Eyes of Your Higher Power

A very young child cannot understand that his dad is a sick alcoholic. Children are limited in logical ability. Their earliest way of thinking is through feelings (felt thought). Children are also egocentric. This doesn't mean they are selfish in the usual meaning of that word. They are not morally selfish. Egocentric thinking means that a child will take everything personally. Even if a parent dies, a child can personalize it.

it is difficult to discern where "you" end and the remainder of the world begins.

It's not because my mind is made up that I don't want you to confuse me with any more facts. It's because my mind isn't made up. I already have more facts than I can cope with. So SHUT UP, do you hear me? SHUT UP!

There are two kinds of fool. One says, 'This is old, and therefore good.' And one says, 'This is new, and therefore better.

I find no evidence for believing that I matter any more than any other human being who ever existed or who ever will exist. Nor does any of them matter more than I do. We're elements in a process that began in the dim past and will develop through who knows what kind of future.

And to close on, the Dept of Small Consolations. Some troubledome just figured out that if you allow for every codder and shiggy and appleofmyeye a space one foot by two you could stand us all on the six hundred forty square mile surface of the island of Zanzibar. ToDAY third MAY twenty-TEN come aGAIN!

We're aware of the scale of the planet, so we don't accept that our own circumscribed horizons constitute reality. Much more real is what's relayed to us by the TV.

Only by the possession of a sense of humour am I saved from insignificance. To

They now see with Heaven's eyes the schemes, traps, enticements, and entertainments of the world in a new way. So